Some news surfaced yesterday regarding the best emulators for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 3. According to their teams, Ryujinx now supports the Vulkan API, whereas RPCS3 now supports save states.
According to the devs behind Ryujinx, the Vulkan API will benefit mostly AMD and Intel owners. Since their OpenGL drivers are not as good as NVIDIA’s, owners of these GPUs can either deal with graphical bugs and poor performance or use Linux. However, and by using Vulkan, Ryujinx can run faster on both AMD’s and Intel’s hardware. Furthermore, Vulkan can natively use a shading language called SPIR-V which is much faster at compiling shaders than the rather sluggish GLSL that OpenGL uses. This last one will also benefit NVIDIA owners.
On the other hand, Save States on RPCS3 are snapshots of whatever was happening on the emulator at the exact moment when they were performed.
Save States are useful in many scenarios, such as when you are in the middle of a tough encounter in a game and you do not want to fight through a bunch of enemies to get back to where you were. In such a scenario you can simply load the Save State you created and pick off exactly from the moment where you took the snapshot, saving you a lot of time and hassle.
You can download the latest versions of Ryujinx and RPCS3 from here and here, respectively.
As we’ve already reported, Ryujinx can run a lot of triple-A Nintendo Switch games. For instance, you can play Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond or Paper Mario: The Origami King. On the other hand, the latest version of RPCS3 can improve performance in numerous PS3 games.
Have fun!
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What’s the best way to play most games at this day? Yuzu, Ryu?- Or both, didn’t played with them since a year (3090) ?
Used both, overall Yuzu is better but it happened for me that certain games would glitch on yuzu and play normal on ryu.
Generally speaking Yuzu runs best. There’ll be the occasional outlier, e.g. New Super Mario Bros.U Deluxe runs poorly for me with Yuzu but maintains a locked 60fps with Ryujinx.
honestly check the game you want to play for compability first.
Both are free and supports the same library. But I think RyujinX is a bit strict on its requirement where it will ask dumped firmware from Switch you owned and dump by yourself (you still can do it sideways of course) , while Yuzu a bit loose regarding to that matter. But overall, both are excellent.
Thanks guys, i ll have a shoot on yuzu this weekend
“According to the devs behind Ryujinx, the Vulkan API will benefit mostly AMD and Intel owners. Since their OpenGL drivers are not as good as NVIDIA’s, owners of these GPUs can either deal with graphical bugs and poor performance or use Linux.”
Ironic statement when now AMD’s OpenGL performance is god damn outstanding on GCN4 and up on Windows.
Pre-GNC4, yeah, great OpenGL performance is still Linux territory.
So cool to see the likes of Yuzu, Ryujinx, RPCS3, PCSX2 and Dolphin constantly improving and being updated on a pretty much daily basis.
Vulkan is still unstable for some games hope it improves soon.